Catégorie : Old sknoblog (2003–2011)

March madness

March has been a crazy month, what with my trip to LA, the subsequent jet lag (someone gave me the following formula: 1 day of feeling like shit for every hour difference. I can pretty much confirm that I felt like shit for the 9 days predicted by the formula!) Have a lot of translation…

Leather Jacket

[kml_flashembed movie= »http://vincent.knobil.free.fr/media/tinyrv_22_leather_jacket.swf » height= »178″ width= »150″ /] A minor (but fun) opus, added to Radio Vince.

Los Angeles

I still haven’t digested my recent stay in LA yet, but today, I stumbled on this quote from an article in the Washington Post on this week’s mayoral election there, that begins to capture my feelings: Someone once asked Jean Renoir, the great French filmmaker whose flight from the Nazis plunked him down in Los…

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Have a nice day

As a US citizen living abroad, I routinely receive e-mails such as the one quoted below (Note: emphasis is mine. Dig the standard disclaimer type language). PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman March 08, 2005 « This Public Announcement is being updated to remind U.S. citizens of the continuing threat of terrorist…

Tired

Just back from a week in Los Angeles, California (what a fucked-up place, but that’s a story for later when jet-lag will have worn off a little, or maybe the subject of a few new future songs?). Anyway, even though I’ve shut down commenting on sknoblog due to comment spam (see previous posts on the…

Current Events

I often feel the urge to comment on current events. But then as a regular reader of the Harper’s Magazine Weekly Review, it has become quite apparent to me that commentary is quite unnecessary. The bare facts speak for themselves. Here’s an excerpt from the latest installment: An expert witness in the Robert Blake murder…